nearly significantp < 0.001
Multinomial regression demonstrated the impact of nPCR at each level of increment of albumin of 0.1 g/dl from 1.9 to 4.1 g/dl when fever, days in hospital, bacteremia, and dry weight change, age (decile), sex, phosphorus, and WBC counts, the factors shown by Pearson correlation to be significant or nearly significant, were taken into account (p < 0.001).